GRE Word List
FESTER
to generate pus
The meaning of the word fester is to generate pus.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| malingerer | to pretend or exaggerate incapacity or illness (as to avoid duty or work) |
| knead | to work and press into a mass with or as if with the hands |
| rudimentary | consisting in first principles : fundamental |
| feral | of, relating to, or suggestive of a wild beast |
| rejoinder | the defendant's answer to the plaintiff's replication |
| cornucopia | a curved, hollow goat's horn or similarly shaped receptacle (such as a horn-shaped basket) that is overflowing especially with fruit and vegetables (such as gourds, ears of corn, apples, and grapes) and that is used as a decorative motif emblematic of abundance |
| empirical | originating in or based on observation or experience |
| frisk | to search (a person) for something (such as a concealed weapon) by running the hand rapidly over the clothing and through the pockets |
| unwieldy | not easily managed, handled, or used (as because of bulk, weight, complexity, or awkwardness) : cumbersome |
| culpable | meriting condemnation or blame especially as wrong or harmful |